PHP : How to get external site cookies using php curl functions

If you work with PHP aggressively you may be came to think some time how you can get the cookies from the external site i.e. cookies from google.com or from your favorite site here is bit of code i want to share with you for this.
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// open a site
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.google.com");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:11.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/11.0');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER ,1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER ,1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION ,1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
$content = curl_exec($ch);

// get cookies
$cookies = array();
preg_match_all('/Set-Cookie:(?<cookie>\s{0,}.*)$/im', $content, $cookies);

print_r($cookies['cookie']);

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Hope it helps someone. :-)